Atar Hadari‘s plays have won awards from the BBC, Arts Council of England, National Foundation of Jewish Culture (New York), European Association of Jewish Culture (Brussels) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was Young Writer in Residence. Plays have been staged at the Finborough Theatre, Wimbledon Studio Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Nat Horne Studio Theatre (New York) and Valdez, Alaska. His collection of biblical monologues, Rembrandt’s Bible, was recently published by Indigo Dreams.
Nonfiction
Summer 2007
Why the Dead Have Lives
John Donne Anne Donne Un-done. This was a bit of doggerel the poet and later preacher John Donne wrote and sent to friends in the aftermath of his elopement, while […]
Fiction
Sept/Oct 2018
Excerpts from “The Gallows”
From the Hebrew. The Noose 1 They had both been sentenced and were due to meet their sentence by hanging. The heads of the Jewish Agency and National Council […]
Spring 2015
I Begin to Rehearse My Death [1]
(Lights up. CHAIKIN and GRIM REAPER on bare stage. REAPER is in long black cowl which hides his face and is holding a large scythe.) CHAIKIN You call that an entrance?
Fall 2014
Jailbird
Characters: PAUL GUARD—a Japanese jailer JOHN—in three different costumes Setting: A door with a spy-hole in it. A bed. A potty. A guitar. No color whatsoever. The light is of […]